Sanitary floor

ABSTRACT

An arrangement for a sanitary floor in bathrooms, laundries or the like where the floor comprises at least one fall inclined toward at least one floor drain. The upper layer of the floor comprises at least two separate, adjacent, rectangularly formed block elements. At least one of the block elements includes the floor drain. Each block element has a lower surface which is parallel with a bedding that supports the block elements. Each block element also has an upper surface which inclines or is inclined a predetermined angle towards the floor drain.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to an arrangement for a sanitary floorsuch as a floor in a bathroom, a laundry or the like, said floorincludes at least one fall of the same towards at least one floor drain.

Today a big problem is to provide sanitary floors having adequate andcorrect fall to a floor drain provided therein. The most common methodis to cast the floor or fill up the same with concrete so that a fall isformed in a direction towards the floor drain. It has been found to bevery difficult, especially after construction, for example to createsaid top casting or filling so that the outflow towards the floor drainfunctions satisfactory without having water remaining in pools indifferent locations on the floor surface. During new construction oftenuses prefabricated wiping rails inclinded towards the floor drain, whichare later removed. After that a first casting is carried out andwhereafter the marks after the rails have been filled up by concrete.This has been found to be very expensive and time consuming.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The object with the present invention is to provide an arrangement for asanitary floor of the type mentioned above by aid of which the drawbacksstated above have been eliminated. The distinguishing features accordingto the invention are stated in the claims enclosed.

The invention makes it possible in a very easy way to provide a sanitaryfloor having a fall towards a floor drain which means that problemsconcerning a correct outflow no longer exist. The floor can be mountedon an already existing even supporting surface and a method usingcastings in different stages is no longer implemented. After mountingthe block elements forming the sanitary floor the floor is finished toserve as a support for a sanitary carpet of plastic material or asuitable type of clinker or tile floor. A special treatment of the blockelements is not necessary after mounting the same since each respectiveblock element is prefabricated. The block elements often only need to becut off along the edges which are turned towards the outer walls of theroom in question. In the case of large floor surfaces, the outermostelements only have to be raised to a level which is the same as adjacentelements by aid of special spacers. In the cases the different blockelements forming the floor in their edge sections are provided withgroove and tenon, it is guaranteed that a correct passage in the samelevel can be provided without a filling up casting afterwards. This isan advantage in the event that the floor is later covered by a plasticcarpet.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The invention shall be described closer below with reference to thedrawing enclosed, in which

FIG. 1 shows a schematic plane view of a sanitary floor according to thepresent invention.

FIG. 2 shows a cross section along the line II--II in FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the groove and tenon feature of theinvention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

As can be seen from the drawings an embodiment of the invention refersto a sanitary floor 1, such as a floor to a bathroom, laundry or thelike, said sanitary floor comprises a number of separate, prefabricatedblock elements 2, 3 and 4. These elements are, in the exampleillustrated, of a square formation. One of the block elements 2comprises a floor drain 5, towards which the upper surface of thiselement inclines in a predetermined angle from the respective outeredge. The block elements 2-4 are supported by a bedding 6 against whichtheir lower surface 7 contacts and extends parallelly. The upper surface8 of the block elements 2-4 is, to the contrary, inclined apredetermined angle or inclines towards the floor drain 5 included inone or some of the elements.

In the example illustrated the floor 1 comprises of five corner blockelements 4, each of which is provided with two inclinations which areinclined towards each other along a diagonal over the element inquestion. The floor 1 further comprises twelve block elements 3 whichonly are provided with an inclination towards one and the same directionand finally the block element 2 provided with the floor drain 5 itselfwhich has four surfaces which incline or are inclined towards the floordrain 5.

Spacers 9 are used in order to have the outermost mounted block elementssituated in level with and form smooth passages to adjacent blockelements. This arrangement can be of an advantage in the cases of largerfloor surfaces, where a bigger number of block elements are required.The area of the spacers 9 corresponds mainly to the block elements.

Referring now to FIG. 3, the block elements 2-4 can also be providedwith groove 10 and temon 11 in their edge sections in order to achievesmoothness and in one and the same level lying passages between thedifferent block elements 2-4, this which can be especially suitable if,for example, a plastic carpet shall be mounted on the floor formed bythe block elements.

What is claimed is:
 1. An arrangement for a sanitary floor comprising:atleast two separate adjacent block elements, at least one of the blockelements includes a floor drain thereby forming a drain block element;each block element having a lower surface which is parallel with abedding supporting the block elements; and each block element furtherhaving an upper surface which inclines or is inclined towards the floordrain.
 2. An arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the floor formedby the block elements comprises:the drain block element; at least twocorner block elements, each of said corner block elements having twofalls, which are inclined towards each other; and wherein all otherblock elements are provided with one fall towards the same direction. 3.An arrangement according to claim 1, further comprising lower elements,in the form of spacers, having substantially the same bottom area as theblock elements, the lower elements are mountable under a respectiveblock element thereby obtaining smooth passages between adjacent blockelements.
 4. An arrangement according to claim 1, wherein each blockelement is formed with a groove and a tenon at least at adjacent edgesections of the block elements.
 5. An arrangement for a sanitary floorcomprising:at least two separate, adjacent block elements, at least oneof the block elements includes a floor drain thereby forming a drainblock element; each block element having a lower surface which isparallel with a bedding supporting the block elements; each blockelement further having an upper surface which inclines or is inclinedtowards the floor drain; and each block element is formed with a grooveand a tenon at least at adjacent edge sections of the block elements. 6.An arrangement for a sanitary floor, said arrangement comprising:a drainblock including a drain disposed therein, said drain block having anupper surface which is inclined toward said drain; and at least oneadditional block disposed adjacent to said drain block, said additionalblock having an upper surface which is inclined toward said drain. 7.The arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein said upper surface ofsaid drain block has four parts which are all inclined toward saiddrain.
 8. The arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein said blocks arecoupled together using a groove and tenon.
 9. The arrangement as claimedin claim 6, further comprising at least one corner block having an uppersurface with two inclinations inclined toward each other.
 10. Thearrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein each of said additionalblocks have upper surfaces which are inclined in the same direction. 11.The arrangement as claimed in claim 9, wherein each of said additionalblocks have upper surfaces which are inclined in the same direction. 12.The arrangement as claimed in claim 11, wherein said upper surface ofsaid drain block has four parts which are all inclined toward saiddrain.
 13. The arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein all of saidblocks have a lower surface which is parallel to a bedding, said beddingsupporting said blocks.
 14. The arrangement as claimed in claim 6,further comprising lower elements, in the form of spacers, havingsubstantially the same bottom area as the block elements, said lowerelements being mountable under a respective block element therebyobtaining smooth passages between adjacent block elements.